Both Uses
tact
in
A Doll's House
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- But how can this well-bred man be so tactless?†
Act 2 *tactless = the quality of saying or handling things in a needlessly offensive mannerstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in tactless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- But this tactless fellow lays no restraint upon himself when other people are present.†
Act 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(tact) the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)